1. Chapter 1: Plot and Setting
“Just Once”
“All Summer in a Day”
“Suit Helps Girl Enjoy Daylight”
“What Will Our Towns Look Like?”

2. Chapter 1: Plot and Setting
Plot: the series of events in a story
Conflict: a struggle or problem
Complication: new problems come up
Climax: most exciting moment of the story
Resolution: final part of the story; how it ends
Setting: Where and when the action of a story takes place – a story can not exist without a setting

3. Plot and Conflict: “Just Once”
Genre: short story
Focus: conflict
Conflict: a struggle between two opposing views or situations
Skill: retelling
Retelling: recall the conflict and the most important events in the plot

4. Setting: “All Summer in a Day”
Genre: short story
Focus: setting
Setting: the place and time of the story.
Skill: making inferences
Making Inferences: a kind of guess; look for clues and figure out things the author doesn’t tell you directly
Literary Response & Analysis
5. At the story’s resolution,
9. The setting of ________ is so important to the plot because

5. Features of a Newspaper: “Suit Helps Girl Enjoy Daylight”
Popular Media: informational materials that share information with the general public. Examples: newspapers, magazines
Features of a Newspaper:
Sections: how the newspaper is divided. Examples: sports, world news, weather, etc.
Headlines: titles of the articles
Byline: name of the reporter who wrote the article
Dateline: name of the place where the event happened and the date it occurred.
Lead: the beginning of the article where the most important information is revealed.

6. Structural Features of Magazines: “What Will Our Towns Look Like?”
Structural Features of a Magazine:
The Cover: art and main headlines
The Contents Page: lists articles and their page numbers
Magazine Articles:
Title: catches readers attention
Subtitle: secondary title that tells you more about the article
Headings: words or phrases used to break the article into sections
Captions: brief informational sentences printed below illustrations.